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Topic: The first astronaut biography?
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Tykeanaut
Member Posts: 2212
From: Worcestershire, England, UK.
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 08-05-2011 03:45 AM
   
Reading about the sad passing of Brian O'Leary and remembering reading his autobiography "The Making of an Ex-Astronaut" got me wondering. Who wrote the first astronaut biography? Was it John Glenn? |
heng44
Member Posts: 3386
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 08-05-2011 04:16 AM
Mike Collins? |
PeterO
Member Posts: 399
From: North Carolina
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 08-05-2011 04:48 AM
Perhaps We Seven, by all the Mercury astronauts, or Gemini! by Grissom?
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Henry Heatherbank
Member Posts: 244
From: Adelaide, South Australia
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 08-05-2011 05:51 AM
quote:
Originally posted by PeterO:
Perhaps We Seven, by all the Mercury astronauts, or Gemini! by Grissom?
I always thought We Seven and Gemini were ghost written (despite We Seven claiming to be by the astronauts themselves). Excluding those two books, the first "real" bio would have been O'Leary's in 1970. Collins' "Carrying the Fire" was published in 1974, the same year as Betty Grissom's "Starfall", I believe. | |
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